State House intimidating staff at Uhuru Kenyatta Office; Kanze Dena claims
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Spokesperson in the Office of the Fourth President Kanze Dena has alleged staff intimidation and night calls at the office of Former President Uhuru Kenyatta by the State House
Spokesperson in the Office of the Fourth President Kanze Dena has alleged staff intimidation and night calls at the office of Former President Uhuru Kenyatta by the State House.
Addressing the media on Monday, June 10, former State House Spokesperson Kanze Dena said there has been unceremonial withdrawal and intimidation of staff via phone and night calls.
“There is unceremonial withdrawal and intimidation of staff via phone calls at midnight,” she alleged.
She alleged that they were being called to be given transfers late at night.
“They were being called at night but we also have to protect our people. Sometimes we get multiple calls of different instructions late at night,” she alleged.
Speaking during a press briefing on Monday, Dena revealed that the government has declined to renew the contracts of two staff members working in former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s office.
The employees she said were herself and Administrator George Kariuki.
“The office still awaits the confirmation and communication on why they blatantly refused to renew contracts of these two professional staff members,” she alleged.
She further claimed the government had not undertaken nor facilitated any repair and maintenance of any vehicles, neither have they been fuelled.
Uhuru through his spokesperson Dena instead alleged he is currently using vehicles given to him on a transitional basis.
Kanze claimed the vehicles in use are those Uhuru departed with from Kasarani after the handing-over ceremony in September 2022.
“After the transition, a conversation on the purchase of the vehicles as required by the Act commenced between the two offices,” Dena alleged.
She further noted that In the financial year 2022/2023, parliament allocated Uhuru’s office Sh655 million.
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“To date, the office can only confirm absorption of roughly Sh28 million spread across the payment of allowances for domestic travels as well as facilitation of the two trips mentioned earlier that were honoured,” she says.
‘…that is approximately 4.4% of the total budget for that particular year.”
In the coming Financial Year 2024/25, the office has been allocated Sh579 million.
“The office waits with bated breath to see if this will be honored,” she said.
At the same time, the office distanced itself from budget estimates tabled in Parliament.
“Our position is that we had no input on the budget estimates that informed the allocation of Sh450 million that Treasury projects to allocate the office in the coming year 2025/26 and Sh475 million for FY 2026/27,” Kanze said.
She explained how the budget allocation is done, saying the process has not happened in the case of the former president’s office.
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